THE FALLEN REALMS SOURCEBOOK PDF PROFESSIONAL

THE FALLEN REALMS SOURCEBOOK PDF PROFESSIONAL

This is the chief reason why adventuring bands-as opposed to strictly ordered professional mercenaries-are suffered to exist in any land where there are laws and lawkeepers. I see the vast, sophisticated majority of nobles and rulers in the Realms habitually using adventurers (and guilds, and costers, and others they can manipulate instead of paying) as their agents (sometimes through several layers of go-betweens). For instance, bards' tales and fireside folklore simply bristle with mention of evil tyrants- yet in the Realms I know, only nobles and rulers who utterly lose their tempers or who are spoiled brutes habitually take open and public violent action. I have long thought that the Realms must seem strange indeed to ye, who've not been told anything comprehensive or coherent about this little detail here, and that little detail, there.

I see Ed is finally seeing, in however paltry and slapdash a manner, to some of those gaps, here and now. Yet some omissions have been born of the urgency of the moment or the lack of pages, time qnd again, and not been set down for all to peruse. I have tried not to doom the Realms by what I've let slip down the decades. Just as much ye should cherish the sage who reins in his tongue, and never shares in the first place what dare not be shared. 'Tis true no book is thick enough to hold everything, but ye should beware the scribe who is ruthless in omissions of lore that just might keep ye alive. Luring them here, and turning them aside from there. This book, like all guides, seeks to steer readers. In short, it needs thee to make a difference. Like thy world, the Realms needs splendid deeds from us all for life to hold a goodly measure of pleasures and rewards. Beggars and humble crofters can change the Realms as much as kings do, and its heroes are not always those lauded. ' A world so vast and rich that its secrets could fill libraries- to say nothing of the myriad passing details of everyday life, the strivings of folk mighty and simple. To all who peruse this volume, these: Well met, as always, and welcome to the latest tome from the pen of Ed of the Greenwood that purports to lay bare secrets of the world I dwell in, the place best known to ye as 'the Forgotten Realms. ДЄ (relatively) young Ed Greenwood summons up his alter ego, Elminster, before the unfurling of a proclamation of great import. Any reproduction or unauthorized use of the material or artwork contained herein is prohibited without the express written permission of Wizards of the Coast. This material is protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America.

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